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The original name of the channel comes from an Anglicization of the Ancient GreekΒόσπορος (Bosporos), which was folk-etymologized as βοὸς πόρος, i.e. "cattle strait" (or "Ox-ford"), from the genitive of bousβοῦς "ox, cattle" + porosπόρος "passage", thus meaning "cattle-passage", or "cow passage". This is in reference to the mythological story of Io, who was transformed into a cow, and was subsequently condemned to wander the Earth until she crossed the Bosphorus, where she met the TitanPrometheus, who comforted Io with the information that she would be restored to human form by Zeus and become the ancestress of the greatest of all heroes, Heracles (Hercules).

Name

The original name of the channel comes from an Anglicization of the Ancient GreekΒόσπορος (Bosporos), which was folk-etymologized as βοὸς πόρος, i.e. "cattle strait" (or "Ox-ford"), from the genitive of bousβοῦς "ox, cattle" + porosπόρος "passage", thus meaning "cattle-passage", or "cow passage". This is in reference to the mythological story of Io, who was transformed into a cow, and was subsequently condemned to wander the Earth until she crossed the Bosphorus, where she met the TitanPrometheus, who comforted Io with the information that she would be restored to human form by Zeus and become the ancestress of the greatest of all heroes, Heracles (Hercules).

The rebels struck on a weekend when the president was out of town at a holiday resort. They seized the main airport, sealed off a bridge over the Bosphorus in Istanbul, sent tanks to parliament and Ankara and to control the main road junctions, and broadcast a statement on TRT state television declaring a curfew and warning people to stay at home....

The rebels struck on a weekend when the president was out of town at a holiday resort. They seized the main airport, sealed off a bridge over the Bosphorus in Istanbul, sent tanks to parliament and Ankara and to control the main road junctions, and broadcast a statement on TRT state television declaring a curfew and warning people to stay at home....

The rebels struck on a weekend when the president was out of town at a holiday resort. They seized the main airport, sealed off a bridge over the Bosphorus in Istanbul, sent tanks to parliament and Ankara and to control the main road junctions, and broadcast a statement on TRT state television declaring a curfew and warning people to stay at home....

Updated travel advice for Turkey said that there were "widespread reports of gunfire and explosions in Ankara and Istanbul" as well as reports of shooting near the popular tourist resort of Marmaris... "Some flights to airports in Turkey are being diverted or cancelled, and the bridges across the Bosphorus in Istanbul have been closed....

The comments followed a night of fighting in which at least 90 people were killed, with gunfire and explosions in Ankara and Istanbul and reports of shooting near the tourist resort of Marmaris... "Some flights to airports in Turkey are being diverted or cancelled, and the bridges across the Bosphorus in Istanbul have been closed....

It said the bridges across the Bosphorus in Istanbul and the road between Marmaris and Icmeler are closed. Gunfire has been reported between the resorts of Marmaris and Icmeler, it said. Witness Ms Scott, said. "I was watching things from my terrace, watching the military vehicles on the BosphorusBridge and then these sonic booms started ... She said ... ....